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How to Avoid Sauté Fires

Craig von Foerster, executive chef of the Post Ranch Inn’s Sierra Mar Restaurant, says down with macho sauté-pan fires—your friends will not be impressed to see you burn your eyebrows off. Here’s the right way to flip food in a pan.

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